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Here we present a study of radial chemical mixing in non-rotating massive main-sequence stars driven by internal gravity waves (IGWs), based on multi-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations with the fully compressible code MUSIC. We examine…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-08 Jack Morton , Thomas Guillet , Isabelle Baraffe , Adrien Morison , Arthur Le Saux , Dimitar Vlaykov , Tom Goffrey , Jane Pratt

Internal gravity waves (hereafter IGWs) are known as one of the candidates for explaining the angular velocity profile in the Sun and in solar-type main-sequence and evolved stars, due to their role in the transport of angular momentum. Our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Lucie Alvan , Stephane Mathis , Thibaut Decressin

The power spectrum of light curves from satellites like CoRoT and TESS of massive main-sequence stars show stochastic low-frequency (SLF) variability. To investigate the origin of this phenomenon, we conducted high-resolution 3D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-16 Praneet Pathak , Simon Blouin , Falk Herwig , Paul R. Woodward

We predict the flux and surface velocity perturbations produced by convectively excited gravity modes (g-modes) in main sequence stars. Core convection in massive stars can excite g-modes to sufficient amplitudes to be detectable with high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Joshua H. Shiode , Eliot Quataert , Matteo Cantiello , Lars Bildsten

Internal gravity waves (hereafter IGWs) are studied for their impact on the angular momentum transport in stellar radiation zones and the information they provide about the structure and dynamics of deep stellar interiors. We here present…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-08 Lucie Alvan , Allan Sacha Brun , Stéphane Mathis

High-precision photometric observations have revealed ubiquitous stochastic low-frequency photometric variability in early type stars. It has been suggested that this variability arises due to either subsurface convection or internal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 Matteo Cantiello , Daniel Lecoanet , Adam S. Jermyn , Luca Grassitelli

Recent asteroseismic advances have allowed for direct measurements of the internal rotation rates of many sub-giant and red giant stars. Unlike the nearly rigidly rotating Sun, these evolved stars contain radiative cores that spin faster…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-30 Jim Fuller , Daniel Lecoanet , Matteo Cantiello , Ben Brown

Magnetism is thought to play an important role in the evolution and dynamics of stars, though little is known about magnetic fields deep within stellar interiors. A promising avenue for probing these fields uses asteroseismic observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-01 Cy S. David , Daniel Lecoanet , Pascale Garaud

Internal gravity waves (IGWs) can cause mixing in the radiative interiors of stars. We study this mixing by introducing tracer particles into two - dimensional (2D) hydrodynamic simulations. Following the work of Rogers & McElwaine (2017),…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 A. Varghese , R. P. Ratnasingam , R. Vanon , P. V. F. Edelmann , T. M. Rogers

Massive main-sequence stars have convective cores and radiative envelopes, but also sub-surface convection zones caused by partial ionisation. However, the convective properties depend on opacity and a star's metallicity. Non-rotating 1D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-21 Dominic M. Bowman , Pieterjan Van Daele , Mathias Michielsen , Timothy Van Reeth

Internal gravity waves (IGWs) are naturally produced by convection in stellar envelopes, and they could be an important mechanism for transporting angular momentum in the radiative interiors of stars. Prior work has established that they…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pavel A. Denissenkov , Marc Pinsonneault , Keith B. MacGregor

Recent photometric observations of massive stars have identified a low-frequency power excess which appears as stochastic low-frequency variability in light curve observations. We present the oscillation properties of high resolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-01 William Thompson , Falk Herwig , Paul R. Woodward , Huaqing Mao , Pavel Denissenkov , Dominic M. Bowman , Simon Blouin

Detailed modeling of stellar evolution requires a better understanding of the (magneto-)hydrodynamic processes which mix chemical elements and transport angular momentum. Understanding these pro- cesses is crucial if we are to accurately…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 T. M. Rogers , J. N. McElwaine

In this second paper of the series on internal gravity waves (IGWs), we present a study of the generation and propagation of IGWs in a model solar atmosphere with diverse magnetic conditions. A magnetic field free, and three magnetic models…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 G. Vigeesh , M. Roth , O. Steiner , J. Jackiewicz

We present the first 3D hydrodynamics simulations of the excitation and propagation of internal gravity waves (IGWs) in the radiative interiors of low-mass stars on the red giant branch (RGB). We use the PPMstar explicit gas dynamics code…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 Simon Blouin , Huaqing Mao , Falk Herwig , Pavel Denissenkov , Paul R. Woodward , William R. Thompson

Atmospheric gravity waves (AGWs) are low-frequency, buoyancy-driven waves that are generated by turbulent convection and propagate obliquely throughout the solar atmosphere. Their proposed energy contribution to the lower solar atmosphere…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-20 Oana Vesa , Jason Jackiewicz , Kevin Reardon

The investigation of the pulsation properties of pre-main-sequence intermediate-mass stars is a promising tool to evaluate the intrinsic properties of these stars and to constrain current evolutionary models. Many new candidates of this…

Massive stars die in catastrophic explosions, which seed the interstellar medium with heavy elements and produce neutron stars and black holes. Predictions of the explosion's character and the remnant mass depend on models of the star's…

We evaluate the potential for gravitational-wave (GW) detection in the frequency band from 10 nHz to 1 $\mu$Hz using extremely high-precision astrometry of a small number of stars. In particular, we argue that non-magnetic, photometrically…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-06 Michael A. Fedderke , Peter W. Graham , Bruce Macintosh , Surjeet Rajendran

Gravitational waves (GWs) provide a revolutionary tool to investigate yet unobserved astrophysical objects. Especially the first stars, which are believed to be more massive than present-day stars, might be indirectly observable via the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-20 Tilman Hartwig , Marta Volonteri , Volker Bromm , Ralf S. Klessen , Enrico Barausse , Mattis Magg , Athena Stacy